Butter?!

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Not exciting, I'm afraid... but I'm curious. So due to lack of availability and because it's £1000000 per pack I've picked up salted block butter rather than Lurpack in today's shop.

I have fond memories of helping my grandmother to make sandwiches using her lovely soft butter from her china butter dish so had a smile to myself. I found out a butter dish and popped it on the side, already looking forward to slathering it on tiger loaf toast tomorrow morning.

DH walked in the kitchen, took a good look at said butter dish as if it may explode and then made a show of putting it back in the fridge. I watched him, and then told him I'm sure it's fine leaving covered on the side, just like my granny always did.

He is adamant butter can't be left out... it will go bad, it will poison us, the children will never be the same etc etc

So who's right MN? Can I leave my butter out or am I dooming us to stomach upset and horrible sandwiches?

Lurpack is utterly awful. Is it even butter? I thought it was a marg.

Morrisons do a salted butter in black packaging that has lumps of rock salt in it. It’s honestly the best thing since sliced bread.

I agree. My Grandad - i spent a lot of time with him & my Nan when i was growing up - took Butter Spreadability very seriously though, and was always one step ahead of any possible weather induced melting or turning into a house brick-ing. He had years of practice i suppose. He definitely made the best toast - thick slices of white bread cut from a bloomer from the local bakery, perfectly toasted under the cooker grill with half an inch of butter on it

I had butter in the butter dish all heatwave and it was fine. Soft, but didn't go manky.
I get through a block a week.

Have been leaving butter out all my adult life... your husband IBVU

Sorry, you are all wrong, butter is yuk in all its creaminess, urrgh, like milk and cream and all those other yukky things.
you need sunflower marg

Whaaat... lurpack is a must! Although I might need to remortgage to keep buying it!

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Well until people started ranting about paying £9 for an unspecified amount that, on further questioning, appears to be a giant tub of imposter butter, I didn't know that so many people bought it.

I thought Lurpak was just a brand of standard block butter that was a bit more expensive than supermarket own brand and, like many 'main brands' isn't particularly special.

A few weeks ago, The Times gave the block version only 2 stars out of 5, describing it as 'pale and thin in colour and tastes fairly bland except for a slight metallic background taste'.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/our-great-butter-taste-test-the-best-and-the-worst-s00mklw5w

(The winner was M&S French butter, closely followed by Aldi West Country, which was pretty good, seeing as it is just about the cheapest real butter you can buy).

Your right op. I only ever use block butter. The dish is always left out and we put the full block in at a time. Never had any problems.

I think on this thread when people are saying ‘Lurpak’ they’re referring to the spreadable version, which has skyrocketed in price. So here ‘Lurpak’ = spreadable butter.

So none of them can read? Or none of them have ever been in a supermarket themselves? It's the fact that so many people believe something that is so obviously incorrect that surprises me.

No, butter should always go in the fridge. If you leave it out it goes all greasy, yuck

If you go through proper butter as quickly as I do when I buy it (which is why I don't buy it very often) then it won't have time to go off.
But it does go rancid as it is dairy, and contains trace amounts of the buttermilk from when it was made, so if it's left out say in the heat wave we had a week ago then it will go off.
We've been storing our bread in the fridge since the hot weather as it was starting to turn.

This!

My butter goes in the butter dish on the side and is absolutely fine even in the hot weather. We do eat a lot of it though

My butter only goes in the fridge when there is a heatwave. Although sometimes I like hard butter so I'll use the 'spare' that is in the fridge.

I never use the spreadables because they taste different I much prefer block butter.

I'm nearly 70 and it hasn't killed me yet

Lurpack is unsalted butter. I like it occasionally but prefer the salted kind for daily use (Like President butter it reminds me of holidays so requires French bread/croissants/brioche and apricot jam)

Nor do I

not envy

Why spread your toast with oil?

I’ve found my people! Eaters of real butter. I’ve just gone back to real block butter and I’ll never go back to “spread”. We’ve been having spreadable butter for years because and the kids like it, but DH bought some kind of awful “blended” shite recently that had such a strong margarine smell it made me gag. Off I went to get real butter and I realised there’s nothing like the real thing.

DH likes the blended vegetable oil + butter stuff in tubs because he’s got it in his head that it’s healthier. Which is rubbish.

You can definitely leave it out, otherwise it gets too hard to use. Just don't let it get too soft.

Butter always in the fridge, growing up and now in my fifties.

Butter on the side, in a covered dish cos cat though.

Yes but I’ve not seen the black salty one in my local Morrisons for aaaages